Corsair halts sales of its Dominator GT lineup

Corsair, a
current enthusiast favorite for selling the world record holding DDR3 memory
modules, has stood up and announced that it will stop selling memory modules
based on Elpida’s “Hyper” ICs. After several customer complaints were filed,
the company has found some issues with the said ICs that are used in its
top-model “Dominator GT” DDR3 lineup.

Apparently, the issue causes a relatively small number of
DRAM modules to fail. “We have seen a number of reports across various forums
about failures of modules (from Corsair as well as from other memory
manufacturers) built with Elpida “Hyper” RAMs. Through lab testing, we have now
been able to reproduce similar failures. We are continuing to test to determine
the cause of these failures. Note that although a relatively small percentage
of “Hyper” ICs appear to be affected, the rate of failure is not acceptable to
Corsair or to our customers. Due to these failures, we will no longer sell
Hyper-based modules until the issue can be resolved.”